Sentient Beings Quotes
56 quotes by 40 authors
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Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
— Jacques Barzun
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We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.
— Adam Pascal
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It is time to fill the world with strong and powerful deeds. It is common knowledge that no great captain in the world has ever…
— Dalai Lama
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...we and all sentient beings fundamentally have the buddha nature as our innermost essence. . . .
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though…
— Martin Gardner
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Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
— Charles Darwin
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The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.
— Annie Besant
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When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.
— Pema Chodron
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We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood…
— Seneca the Younger
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May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.
— Gautama Buddha
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Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If…
— Paul Davies
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If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of…
— Dainin Katagiri
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There is a simple way to become buddha: When you refrain from unwholesome actions, are not attached to birth and death, and are compassionate toward…
— Dogen
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Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering…
— Amartya Sen
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Once we experience and feel this inter-dependence of all living beings,we will cease to hurt, humiliate, exploit and kill another. We will want to free…
— Suresh Jindal
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Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Being vegan is not just a matter of being 'kind' to animals.  First and foremost, it is a matter of being just and observing…
— Gary L. Francione
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Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon which all beings…
— Gary L. Francione
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The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion…
— Gary L. Francione
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Whenever I visit a market and see the chickens crowded together in tiny cages that give them no room to move around and spread their…
— Dalai Lama
Who Wrote These Sentient Beings Quotes
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